how relieved are you that the president was re-elected? >> i'm just relieved the election's over. oh, my god! i was tired of getting pummelled. but, and, you know, actually, politically, i'm somewhat of an independent. i've supported both republicans and democrats. i'm not a hard-core one way or the other, and i mean, i think i'm moderate. frankly, i think i'm probably right where most americans are, actually. >> but you would agree that maybe the policies from the democrats are more favorable to a company like yours? >> i do. the nature of the two-party system is that any given issue is going to fall into either the republican or the democratic camp. and that doesn't mean that one agrees with all the things in one camp or the other. i think most americans wouldn't say that they agree with everything, you know, in one camp or another. but that's just the way it goes. and i do think that in this case, that the democratic side is right about environmental issues. that's not to say that the most extreme elements are right about, but it's substantially right, i think, about the enviro